It is rather funny, how the first poster pointed out, that when these guys call you such names and taunt you they are either usually in large groups and surrounded by these big, fat thug looking guys, and that they usually are much more timmid on their own. Once I looked at a guy too long than necessary and he called me a really offensive name, but in the end I just rolled my eyes and ignored it. The guy was just being a total jackass and I was staring at him because he was being so stupid and immature, yet he obviously thought I had 'designs' on him. Idiot.
Insecurity about one's masculinity is often the cause of it, especially when there is a group of guys around and it is normally the smaller guy in the group who has the big mouth and is a big guy when surrounded by his bigger, buffer offsiders, but when you get them alone they are not so......forward in their comments. Although at the time I know you really feel like slamming their head into the nearest thick wall But if you do that it's you who will get in trouble and they won by getting a rise out of you, which is why they really do it in the first place. Got nothing better to do so I'll just see if I can get someone really pissed off, and if he tried to hit me I'll just hide behind me big mate Biff here. It's total playground politics that have never truly left us.